WWALS Watershed Coalition advocates for conservation and stewardship of the Withlacoochee, Willacoochee, Alapaha, Little, and Suwannee River watersheds in south Georgia and north Florida through education, awareness, environmental monitoring, and citizen activities.

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FERC, if it follows its own rules, should reject the DSEIS, stop Sabal Trail, and revoke its permit, says a motion filed today with FERC by Suwannee Riverkeeper.

Followup blog posts will feature major sections and arguments from these 20 pages with their 93 footnotes.
The basic arguments are summarized on the first page:

WWALS argues that no SEIS can be complete without accounting for GHG
from Liquid Natural Gas (“LNG”) exports, nor without
comparing natural gas to solar power, according to precedents
already set by FPL, FERC, and others, which also reopen the whole
basis of the FERC 2016 Order.

FERC may not care, but the D.C. Circuit Court may, or candidates
for office, or the voting public.

Steve Pieczenik called the Union County Commissioners brave, honest, respectful, efficient, and transparent public servants.
Jim Tatum said they had foresight and had taken appropriate steps.
Both complimented the many mine opponents who showed up and spoke their piece
briefly and effectively.
Here are a couple of reports from
Union BOCC’s Monday workshop about the HPS II phosphate mine.

The next one is coming up 5PM Tuesday, January 16, 2018,
at which Union BOCC is scheduled to vote on extending its moratorium
against phosphate mining, as well as reviewing their
proposed Comprehensive Plan changes.

Hahira, Georgia, November 21, 2017 —
Factually incorrect, failing to account for LNG export or solar power, and irresponsible for not finding or creating a method for attributing environmental effects to greenhouse gases, as the DC Circuit Court had instructed
the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to do:
that’s what nine Riverkeepers called FERC’s Supplementary Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) yesterday; see their letter to FERC.
The nine include all the Riverkeepers in the path of Sabal Trail and all parts of the Southeast Market Pipelines Project (SMPP) plus others in all three states invaded by those pipelines, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, plus Oklahoma, where the SMPP instigator,
Florida Power & Light (FPL), owns a fracking field,
The nine, who support fishable, swimmable, drinkable water,
pointed out that all of FPL’s original excuses for Sabal Trail have been
proven incorrect, and asked FERC to shut it down.